Six Days
Author | : Patrick J. O'Brian |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2004-09 |
Genre | : Indiana |
ISBN | : 0595330991 |
Police sergeant Tim Packard is a man known for getting things done. When a new police chief is appointed, Packard heads up a new task force designed to cut down recent drug trafficking in a Central Indiana city. The attention of his new task force is quickly diverted, however, when a group of terrorists invades his city. Wreaking havoc, the terrorists set out to randomly murder citizens, poison the water supply, and blow up key buildings. When Packard discovers one of the terrorists might have a link to one of his officers, things only grow worse. Forced to decide where to place his loyalty, and whom to trust, the sergeant realizes the fate of his city rests almost entirely on his shoulders. Not a man who plays by the rules, Packard puts the safety of others and his reputation ahead of everything else. He and his men do whatever it takes to bring criminals to justice, and decide to use their own brand of justice against the terrorists. Outgunned, outnumbered, and seemingly one step behind the terrorists at all times, the task force members use their knowledge of their city, investigative experience, and a few dirty tricks to track their new enemies. Unsure of whom to trust, Packard ultimately withdraws himself from a group of emergency personnel formed to stop the terrorists, much to the dismay of his superiors. Deciding to place complete trust in his own group, and his knack for getting jobs done, he risks everything to save the city in which he has lived his entire life. Should he fail, thousands could die, and if he succeeds, it may be at the cost of his own career.
Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts
Author | : J.H. Beers |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 823 |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5874801324 |
Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts: Containing Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and . Records of Many of the Old Families.
Report of the American Home Missionary Society
Author | : American Home Missionary Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : Congregational churches |
ISBN | : |
Annual Report of the American Tract Society
Author | : American Tract Society (Boston, Mass.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : Tract societies |
ISBN | : |
Freedom North
Author | : J. Theoharis |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2016-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1403982503 |
The civil rights movement occupies a prominent place in popular thinking and scholarly work on post-1945 U.S. history. Yet the dominant narrative of the movement remains that of a nonviolent movement born in the South during the 1950s that emerged triumphant in the early 1960s, only to be derailed by the twin forces of Black Power and white backlash when it sought to move outside the South after 1965. African American protest and political movements outside the South appear as ancillary and subsequent to the 'real' movement in the South, despite the fact that black activism existed in the North, Midwest, and West in the 1940s, and persisted well into the 1970s. This book brings together new scholarship on black social movements outside the South to rethink the civil rights narrative and the place of race in recent history. Each chapter focuses on a different location and movement outside the South, revealing distinctive forms of U.S. racism according to place and the varieties of tactics and ideologies that community members used to attack these inequalities, to show that the civil rights movement was indeed a national movement for racial justice and liberation.